Stir Crazy October 15, 2006
Posted by prex in Creativity, Food, Out and About.add a comment
So I love this restaurant I am not sure if you are familiar with it or not here’s the link feel free to check it out—
http://www.stircrazy.com/fresh.htm
I am a big fan of Asian food, and love stir fry. The idea behind this restaurant is you pick your meat you pick rice or noodles what kind of rice what kind of noodles then you get a wok and you go up to a salad bar with everything fresh you can possibly think of and you choose what to put into your stir fry. Any combination of veggies, spices and so on. There are like 8 sauces to choose from you can mix if you want to. Then you hand it to chef who cooks it in front of you adding the meat and whatever else you have chosen.
Now what does this have to do with creativity you might ask? Well stir crazy came to mind back in the beginning of the class and it has resonated true with a few topics we have touched on. Mainly I see links with Knowledge and goodness of fit.
As far as goodness of fit, back in my rant on hair I explained hair is not my gift. Neither is food really. I can follow a recipe, I can make more then the average undomesticated female but I wouldn’t say it is a gift. I could become better if I worked at it, but that is more knowledge and practice and I don’t have the disposition, drive or motivation to do it quite frankly. Same thing with hair. Some people are just born with that “goodness of fit”. I wasn’t born having it for say soccer the way that some of my girl friends growing up were naturally better then me. But I worked and I practiced to be able to play at their level.
Anyways back to stir crazy. One of my best friends from highschool and I used to go to this restaurant together and Dan loved the idea but he wasn’t very knowledgeable of how food and certain “tastes” and or flavors go together or shouldn’t go together he would throw everything he possibly liked into the same wok. And he always hated what he created and wouldn’t eat it.
I like that all the wok always come out different. I like that i get to make my food how I like it. But I posses a limited knowledge of the food I like or I try to get suggestion from people who are more knowledgeable then me on things I should try.
I recommend trying the restaurant. Huge servings kinda a neat experience.
